“Sex and the City” opens wide on Friday — and Denver women are determined to see the movie in groups.

To have cocktails. To dress up. To venture into sticky-floored movie theaters in their Manolo Blahniks.

One of the biggest parties comes down at Marlowe’s 6-8 p.m. Friday. More than 100 women have already signed up for this pre-game of cocktails, apps, prizes and an auction of “sexy” gifts. It’s a benefit for Making Choices, a group that helps incarcerated women upon their release.

After the party, the moviegoers will march across the street to Denver Pavilions to watch the film, then back to Marlowe’s for the post-game re-cap.

“It’s chick-lit live,” says organizer Tracy Shaffer. “We don’t have a lot of these communal experiences. It’s catching up with old friends. It’s a reunion.”

Shaffer says her friends aren’t really that curious about the plot of “Sex.”

“Their lives are going to be like our lives. Some good things are going to happen, some bad things are going to happen. That’s the beauty of the show. We also liked the idea that someone was out there buying the clothes we couldn’t afford.”

Landmark Theaters in Greenwood Village should be hit hard — because it has a full in-house bar.

“Sex” will be playing on three screens. Every hour on the hour, from opening to closing, a screening of “Sex” will start.

And the bar will be offering Cosmos and Flirtinis. Manager Brandy Davis tells me that literally hundreds of groups, small and large, have reserved seats for screenings.

“We expect this to be very big,” she says.

Make that Mister Big.

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Chinook Tavern in Cherry Creek North is blowing southward to Landmark in Greenwood Village.

After almost 14 years in the Creek, owners Clemens Georg and his dad, Manfred Georg, told me they’re ready to move when their lease expires in July.

Yes, they’ll be open for the holidays and through June. Don’t worry about your Christmas parties or your gift certificates. They’re all good.

The Georges hope it’s seamless as they slide down to a big new luxurious space in Landmark, the suburban village that will also host Lime, Hapa Sushi, Jing, Ted’s Montana Grill, Sparrow and a new Comedy Works.

Clemens told me they wanted to see what a premiere ground level space could do. On Detroit Street now, Chinook is garden level.

But they serve the best weiner platter in town.

Clemens is also concerned with the direction the neighborhood is taking. He said Cherry Creek is changing from a rich ’hood to a “very wealthy” neighborhood, which translates into second homes – and often empty homes.

We hear the Chinook space is quietly hunting for a new tenant for July.

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Many a regular lamented the closing of Mel’s Bar & Grill in April. Tears were shed as the popular neighborhood hangout shuttered and owners Mel and Janie Master and their son Charles moved to Greenwood Village to open Montecito South and Annabel’s.

But at Montecito South “the results were disappointing,” Mel says. Now he’s changing it to Mel’s. It’s a resurrection!

“Everyone kept saying to us ‘We miss Mel’s. We miss Mel’s. We miss Mel’s.’ So Janie and I thought, ‘Why not?’”

The menu will be the Melly favorites — roasted chicken with fries and tarragon butter, hamburgers, mussels “La Cagouille.”

He’s also bring back a lot of the Mel’s staff. The spot opens as Mel’s of Greenwood Village on Oct. 9. Party-time!

“The only sad thing is it’s a long way from Cherry Creek,” Mel says. “But a lot of our clientele came from where we are now. It’s all very exciting.”

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She’s the CEO/boss at Comedy Works in downtown Denver — and she’s working on the opening of the second store, Comedy Works South, at The Landmark, a luxe-life development on East Berry Avenue in Greenwood Village.

It’s hardly a replica of the underground downtown operation.

The show room is bigger, roomier, with a mezzanine. “But it’s still intimate for comedy,” Curtis says. “It’s really cool.”

Add to that a high end restaurant called Lucy. It’ll feature “modern cuisine with a light southern touch,” Curtis explains.

The Comedy Works South will also have a “sexy martini lounge,” a swanky sports bar on the top floor, a private dining room and two kitchens, one of them kosher. Twelve-thousand square of fun.

Curtis is also planning on offering some early evening all-age entertainment – so a family can have dinner, catch a show, get the baby-sitter home and be tucked in bed by 10 p.m.

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Venice Ristorante is a pass-the-pasta hit in LoDo and Greenwood Village â€” so owner Alessandro Carollo is taking the show on the road to La Jolla, Calif.

He told me all about it when I stopped in the LoDo shop Saturday night â€” and the joint was jammed. It always is. With $3 food and $5 wine after 9 p.m. and before 7 p.m. â€” LoDo denizens know a bargain.

Carollo says heâ€™s taking over a beautiful restaurant in the middle of La Jolla named Tutto Mare. He plans to open the joint June 29. And the swears heâ€™s not worried about running multiple restaurants in Colorado and California.

â€œWe have chefs from Italy,â€? he says. â€œIt will be the same concept as Venice in LoDo.â€?

If he keeps up those happy hour prices, there are going to be some very happy La Jollans.

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Melâ€™s Bar & Grill shuts it down for good on April 28, leaving Cherry Creek a little lonely for its good food, good spirits and good vibes â€” not to mention the hamburger.

â€œIt really hasnâ€™t hit me yet,â€? says owner/operator Mel Master. â€œItâ€™s sad, but itâ€™s the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one.â€?

The new chapter includes the opening of two new restaurants in Greenwood Village at Orchard Road and Holly Street – Montecito (opening May 2) and Annabelâ€™s (opening for lunch May 9, dinner May 16).

Of the 14 or so restaurants Master has opened, Jams in NYC and Melâ€™s in Denver were his favorites, he says â€” and Melâ€™s was the only eponymous endeavor.

On April 24, Melâ€™s hosts a farewell benefit dinner with some alumni chefs – Frank Bonanno of Mizuna, Goose Sorensen of Solera, Tyler Wiard and Corey Treadway of Elwayâ€™s and current chef Chad Clevenger. Sorry, itâ€™s sold out.

Bill Hustedâ€™s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on â€œGood Day Coloradoâ€? on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.